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Better check your Picassos

How many newspapers have original Picassos displayed in their building? If you do, it pays to keep an eye on them.

The Los Angles Times just reported that they lost five lithographs, framed as one, which was mounted behind a drop-down projector screen in their community room.

Times tour guide Darrell Kunitomi noted their disappearance when he greeted visitors in the community room a few years ago.

“I would raise the AV screen, behind which there were five Picassos. People were impressed to see them,” he said. “One night I raised it, and there was a bare wall. I had no idea as to whether they were taken or stored — they were simply gone.”